Jayber Crow - Eugene Oregon lyrics

Thinkin of heading there soon

Get closer to the coast of the Pacific Ocean

Far from what I'm used to

My friends have traveled west

Across the continent in search of a better life

Just like Lewis and Clark at the request of Jefferson

Obsessed with what they could find

La la la la la......

And all the stories that we tell to move us forward

We learned them when we are young

So that life becomes a race where you can't look backwards

Best to stare at yet to come

And our lives are on a course a manifest destiny

To cover all the miles that we can

So we formed the modern ranks of discovery

march out over the land

La la la la la......

And we ripen like fruit sucking nutrients

Wait for our stems to break

So we can fall from the tree sweet with indifference

And sit there for someone to take

So go ahead and pull the plug drain the country side

Rob the small towns that bear you

Pack 'em up and ship them out to someplace far away

Tell them its the best they can do

La la la la la......

Yes and I am moving soon

To Minnesota and Indiana home

Tell my friends and family its nice to know you

Its time to get out on my own

And I will move on from there in the name of progress

Reaching for the setting sun

Will consume my every care I'll never stop and never rest

Never say that I am done

La la la la la......

Yes and I will make it out to Eugene Oregon

And on to the pacific coast

And I will step to edge and touch the ocean

And that's as bout as far as you can go

And I will have to turn around my back to the western sky

Shriving wet and alone

And I will see my footsteps stretched back east ward

Take a breath and follow them home

Follow them home...

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